Tip of the Hat: What the Heartbleed bug means for you

Computerworld Security: April 10, 2014
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Tip of the Hat: What the Heartbleed bug means for you

Computerworld offers a Tip of the Hat to Shane Dingman of the Toronto Globe and
Mail for an easy-to-understand look at the Heartbleed security bug -- what
happened, what key websites are among the hundreds of thousands affected, and
whether users can do anything at this point.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Richi Jennings: Heartbleed -- another horrible, horrible, open-source FAIL
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8898124/823929835/665995/19/

2. Adobe patches critical flaws in Flash Player and AIR
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8898124/823929835/665996/20/

3. Cognitive bias: The risk from everyone in your organization, including you
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8898124/823929835/665997/21/

4. Darlene Storm: Spider problems cause Mazda to recall 42,000 cars for software update
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8898124/823929835/665998/28/

5. Twitter says it dodged the horrors of Heartbleed
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8898124/823929835/665999/29/

6. Canada halts online tax returns in wake of Heartbleed
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Richi Jennings: Heartbleed -- another horrible, horrible, open-source FAIL


Chicken Little says you shouldn't rely on open sores.

OpenSSL's TLS and DTLS implementations are badly broken -- tests our faith in
open source. Last month it was GnuTLS, now it's OpenSSL's turn to give the lie
to the "all bugs are shallow" mantra.

The snappily-named CVE-2014-0160 bug, aka Heartbleed, is a truly epic
vulnerability, which has been silently widespread on the net for two years.
Naturally, there's much speculation that the NSA and GCHQ have been exploiting
the bug for some time.

In IT Blogwatch, bloggers duck and cover from falling skies.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8898124/823929835/665995/32/

Adobe patches critical flaws in Flash Player and AIR

Adobe Systems released security updates for Flash Player and AIR in order to
address four critical vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code
execution and information disclosure.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8898124/823929835/665996/33/

Cognitive bias: The risk from everyone in your organization, including you

Risks to enterprises are not only of the security breach variety from outside
attackers, malicious insiders or even careless employees. Another comes from
everybody in an organization a even its most loyal, careful, capable members.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8898124/823929835/665997/34/

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Darlene Storm: Spider problems cause Mazda to recall 42,000 cars for software update


Security researchers released a "car hacking for poories" guide so anyone can
afford to try attacking vehicles. Yet one of the strangest 'attacks'
is coming from spiders, the eight-legged kind. Mazda will issue updated software
for 42,000 recalled Mazda6s to fix the spider problem.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8898124/823929835/665998/36/

Twitter says it dodged the horrors of Heartbleed

Twitter was not affected by the Heartbleed Internet vulnerability that rocked
the Web security world this week, making one less password consumers need to
change to protect themselves, but users still need to be careful how they
respond to the threat.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8898124/823929835/665999/37/

Canada halts online tax returns in wake of Heartbleed

Canada Revenue Agency has halted online filing of tax returns by the country's
citizens following the disclosure of the Heartbleed security vulnerability that
rocked the Internet this week.
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